Monday, 17 February 2020

Wolseley Hornet, final engine modifications and details including a modification to chain guide in Tufnol material; some further attention to the beginning of a crack in the cast iron drive housing for the water pump and oil pump skew drive assembly. This demonstrates Eutectic Metalspray equipment designed for this type of work. It allows small precision deposits of material to the damage area at a relatively low temperature for a "hot" repair. The crack is then reinforced internally with a bronze sleeve machined and lightly pressed with Loctite.

Breather oil catch tank located beneath the supercharger on the side of the engine.

Final setting up work with very careful spline dressing, engineer's blue and end float adjustment.

Below picture shows the modified Tufnol chain guide, hidden and camouflaged to the right of the picture with the chain against it.

The water pump drive shaft had the end section removed for some reason? We have set and machined a suitable slot to accept a steel "tongue" to be silver soldered into position and provide the water pump drive.

Wednesday, 29 January 2020

We have this lovely Chevrolet in the workshop for a few jobs including looking at oil leaks around the rear of the engine as well an issue with the passenger side window winder.

Below, the rear main bearing cap has been dropped to consider rear main seal condition, at the same time we can renew the gaskets. The rear main bearing journal and shell are visually in very good condition.

Interestingly the flywheel is very clean suggesting the rear main seal is in good condition, it may be prudent to leave the top seal untouched and pack a new section into the cap portion. It appears that most of the oil has been leaking from the rear of the sump gasket.

We have lightly oil stoned the cap faces to check for bruising before preparing for assembly.

We are hoping to see if we can recover or repair the window wind mechanism on the passenger side. Despite making a suitable "clutch head bolt" tool (Chevrolet fittings from this period) from an HT bolt (above), there is "always one" fitting that fights. This one bolt had already given someone a hard time before as it has quite a lot of damage.

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Following many years based on the south coast of the UK, we now operate on the beautiful Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire border, surrounded by wonderful countryside and woodland so typical of this location.

Just a few miles to the North we have the picture postcard town of Burford and a few miles to the south we have England's oldest inland port, Lechlade on Thames.

In this more centralised location, we share the considerable sized Broughton Poggs Business Park with Fiennes Restoration to whom we are now proudly affiliated. Fiennes have a worldwide reputation for their unique service to Rolls-Royce and Bentley motor heritage.

We will continue to provide a very competitively priced service to vintage, pre and post war, motoring and racing "machines", we will also continue to provide assistance with vintage and classic aviation projects as before.

If you would like to visit our new premises we would be very happy to introduce you to our workshops and projects, with coffee in hand.

Please contact us if we can help with a project or for free, no obligation advice.

Over the years we have accrued quite a variety of engines on which we have carried out major work, (often on multiples of the same type of engine) most are complete rebuilds or reconstruction from a few rare parts. These include:

Amilcar

Alvis Silver Eagle

Alvis Grey Lady

Aston Martin 15/98

AC

Austin 7

Austin 10

Ausin A series

Bentley WO

Bentley (Derby)

Bedford Commercial

Bristol / BMW 6cyl

BSA 250, 350, 650

Chrysler

C.I.M.E

Chevrolet SB

Citroen 5cv '20's

Coventry Climax

Daimler Sleeve Valve

De Haviland

Delage DIS

De Dion Bouton

De Dion (Jackson Dogcart)

DFP

Ford Model A

Ford 289

Ford T

Ford x flow (Formula Ford)

Ford V6

Humber 1914

Humber 6 '36

Harley Davidson J '22 - S/Hd '75

Lagonda 2L

Lagonda Meadows 6, LG

Lagonda V12

Lanchester 4

Land Rover

Lycoming

Lotus TC

Meadows 4

Meadows 6

Mercedes '59

Morris 8

Morris Commercial Petrol '30

Morris A Series

Morris FFK Commercial Diesel

MG TC

MG PA

Napier

Osca

Peugeot 601 '36

Peugeot 401 '30s

Rolls-Royce Small HP

Rolls-Royce PII

Rolls-Royce (Aero)

Renault '34

Salmson (Aero)

Talbot 6 cyl

Triumph 6cyl '60/'70s

Triumph Tiger Cub

Triumph 500

Triumph 650

Weslake 500

Waukesha

Wolseley Hornet

Rodeck V8

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